Roger Ebert - The Great Movies

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"Movie history did not begin in 1967, but my career as a movie critic did.

"Since then I’ve reviewed most of the new movies as they’ve opened, but there is almost never time to go back and write about the great movies of the past.

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"Now I want to change that—to a small degree, anyway. Readers often helpfully suggest, ‘Why don’t you go back and review all the great movies of the past?’ I sigh and explain that there are about 250 new releases every year for me to review, that time is at a premium, that man doth not live by looking at movies alone, etc. But they have a point.

"I’ve begun a new bi-weekly feature called ‘The Great Movies,’ in which I review a classic from years past."

#Last 10 additions

Ballad of Narayama

Monsieur Hire

Veronica Voss

Spirit of the Beehive

Mulholland Dr

The Life of Oharu

Cleo from 5 to 7

Spirited Away

The Pledge

French Cancan

[Last update: March 7, 2012]Ballad of Narayama (1958)

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  1. 1.
    3 Women (The Criterion Collection)
    by Robert Altman

  2. 2.
    8 1/2 (The Criterion Collection)
    by Federico Fellini

  3. 3.
    12 Angry Men
    by Sidney Lumet

  4. 4.
    25th Hour
    by Spike Lee

  5. 5.
    The 400 Blows (The Criterion Collection)
    by François Truffaut

  6. 6.
    2001 - A Space Odyssey
    by Stanley Kubrick

  7. 7.
    Ace in the Hole (The Criterion Collection)
    by Billy Wilder

  8. 8.
    Adaptation (Superbit Collection)
    by Spike Jonze

  9. 10.
    After Dark, My Sweet
    by James Foley

  10. 11.
    After Hours
    by Martin Scorsese

  11. 12.
    The Age of Innocence
    by Martin Scorsese

  12. 13.
    Aguirre, the Wrath of God
    by Werner Herzog

  13. 14.

  14. 15.
    Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (The Criterion Collection)
    by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

  15. 16.
    Alien
    by Ridley Scott

  16. 17.
    All About Eve
    by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

  17. 18.
    Amadeus - Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Milos Forman

  18. 19.
    Amarcord (The Criterion Collection)
    by Federico Fellini

  19. 20.
    An Autumn Afternoon (The Criterion Collection)
    by Yasujiro Ozu

  20. 21.
    Annie Hall
    by Woody Allen

  21. 22.
    The Apartment
    by Billy Wilder

  22. 23.
    Apocalypse Now
    by Francis Ford Coppola

  23. 26.
    Atlantic City
    by Louis Malle

  24. 27.
    Au Hasard Balthazar (The Criterion Collection)
    by Robert Bresson

  25. 28.
    Au revoir les enfants - criterion collection
    by Louis Malle

  26. 29.
    Babel
    by Alejandro González Iñárritu

  27. 30.
    Badlands
    by Terrence Malik

  28. 31.
    The Ballad of Narayama (Criterion Collection)
    by Keisuke Kinoshita

  29. 32.
    The Band Wagon (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Vincente Minnelli

  30. 33.
    The Bank Dick (The Criterion Collection)
    by Edward F. Cline

  31. 34.
    Baraka: 2-Disc Special Edition
    by Ron Fricke

  32. 35.
    Barry Lyndon
    by Stanley Kubrick

  33. 36.
    The Battle of Algiers (The Criterion Collection)
    by Gillo Pontecorvo

  34. 37.
    Battleship Potemkin
    by Sergei M. Eisenstein

  35. 38.
    Beat the Devil
    by John Huston

  36. 39.
    Beauty and The Beast (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jean Cocteau

  37. 40.
    Being There

  38. 41.
    Belle de Jour
    by Luis Buñuel

  39. 42.
    La Belle Noiseuse
    by Jacques Rivette

  40. 43.
    The Best Years of Our Lives
    by William Wyler

  41. 44.
    The Bicycle Thief
    by Vittorio De Sica

  42. 45.
    The Big Heat
    by Fritz Lang

  43. 46.
    The Big Lebowski (Widescreen Collector's Edition)
    by Joel Coen

  44. 47.
    The Big Red One
    by Samuel Fuller

  45. 48.
    The Big Sleep (Snap case)
    by Howard Hawks

  46. 49.
    The Birth of a Nation
    by D.W. Griffith

  47. 50.
    Blade Runner (Two-Disc Final Cut)
    by Ridley Scott

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RIP — 10 weeks ago

Sorry to see Roger go. His reviews have been a big part of my movie-watching life!


Wahoo! Ebert adds Mulholland Dr! — 31 weeks ago

Thrilled to see Ebert add one of my personal favorites :)


Cleo from 5 to 7 — 42 weeks ago

Ebert added this film yesterday. He linked to it on twitter and said: “My new Great Movies piece. I’m posting it on my blog platform so I can accept comments.”

article is : http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2012/08/great_movie_cleo_from_5_to_7.html



La Collectionneuse was on here twice — 50 weeks ago

Hey, La Collectionneuse was on here twice. One under C and one under L. I kept the Criterion collection version as it has more checks.

6/30/12

Edit: I kept it under C.


Late Spring — 1 year ago

Does anyone know how to correct the entry so that Yasujiro Ozu is properly credited as the director (rather than Wim Wenders)?


schnit123 — 2 years ago

Finished! (for the time being). Now I just have to see if I can keep pace with him.


Untitled — 2 years ago

I believe the Harold Llyod entry should be “Safety Last!” and not “From Hand to Mouth”


Wrong The Phantom of the Opera — 2 years ago

Wrong version.


Untitled — 2 years ago

If we’re being technical, Victor Fleming was the main director of “Gone with the Wind” although George Cukor had was considerably involved.


My Turn..... — 3 years ago

I just added Nosferatu, oddly enough I received an awesome copy of it remastered in 3D the other day. People should check it out… It’s really quite good.

http://www.amazon.com/Orlock-Vampire-3D-Andy-Och/dp/B002R8DYSI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1259476619&sr=8-1



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